In response to the complexities of technological, social, political, and institutional change, the Property Research Workshop focused on the theoretical, rather than the empirical aspects of property-related research. Specifically, emphasis was on analytical and institutional approaches to research. Ten institutionally-related propositions were presented by resource person for purposes of general and small group discussions. Derived from the institutional propositions, the following property-related research areas were analyzed: (1) the land market; (2) parcelization through easements; (3) farm corporations; (4) population distribution patterns (suburbanization) caused by local parcelization of government; (5) change from production to market domination; (6) the effect of the welfare state on the need for an individual estate; (7) the quality of resources available (fixed vs infinite). The analytical approaches to property research (also presented by a resource person) included: (1) the property rights approach (definition of incentive structure, behavioral assumptions, and conclusions); (2) research models (incentives framework development, model development specifying interactions, variable starting values, behavioral assumptions, model run, and results); (3) hypothesis testing (hypothesis validity). (JC)